#THE COAL INDIA (REGULATION OF TRANSFERS AND VALIDATION) ACT, 2000 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 
1. Short title. 
2. Definitions. 
3. Power of Central Government to direct transfer of land, rights, title or interest. 
4. Validation of certain transfers. 



#THE COAL INDIA (REGULATION OF TRANSFERS AND VALIDATION) ACT, 2000 

##ACT NO. 45 OF 2000 

[8th December, 2000.] 

An Act to empower the Central Government to direct the transfer of the land, or of the rights in 
  or over land or of the right, title and interest in relation to a coal mine, coking coal mine or 
  coke  oven  plant,  vested  in  the  Coal  India  Limited  or  in  a  subsidiary  company  to  any 
  subsidiary company of Coal India Limited or any other subsidiary company and to validate 
  certain transfers of such land or rights. 

  BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

1. **Short title.**—This Act may be called the Coal India (Regulation of Transfers and Validation) Act, 2000. 

2. **Definitions.**—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— 

  (a) “Coal India” means the Coal India Limited, a Government company incorporated under the 
Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) having its registered office at Calcutta and includes its predecessor 
Government company, namely, the Coal Mines Authority Limited; 

  (b) “subsidiary company” means the following subsidiary companies of Coal India, namely:— 

     (i)  the  Central  Coal  Fields  Limited,  Ranchi  and  includes  its  predecessor  Government 
company, namely, the National Coal Development Corporation Limited, Ranchi; 

     (ii) the Bharat Coking Coal Limited, Dhanbad; 

     (iii) the Western Coal Fields Limited, Nagpur; 

     (iv) the Eastern Coal Fields Limited, Sanctoria; 

     (v) the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited, Ranchi; 

     (vi) the South-Eastern Coal Fields Limited, Bilaspur; 

     (vii) the Northern Coal Fields Limited, Singrauli; 

     (viii) the Mahanadi Coal Fields Limited, Sambalpur; 

and  includes  such  other  subsidiary  company  of  Coal  India  as  may  be  incorporated  under  the 
Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) from time to time; 

  (c) words  and  expressions  used  herein  and  not  defined  but  defined  in  the  Coking  Coal  Mines 
(Nationalisation) Act, 1972 (36 of 1972) or the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973 (26 of 1973), 
shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in those Acts. 

3. **Power of Central Government to direct transfer of land, rights, title or interest.**—(1) 
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Central Government 
may, if it is satisfied that a subsidiary company is willing to comply, or has complied, with such terms 
and conditions as that Government think fit to impose, direct, by notification in the Official Gazette, that 
the land or rights in or over such land or the right, title and interest in relation to a coal mine, coking coal 
mine or a coke over plant vested in the Coal India shall, instead of continuing to vest in the Coal India, 
vest in that subsidiary company or, where such land or right, title or interest vests in subsidiary company, 
in another subsidiary company. 

(2) Where  the land  or  right  in  or  over  such  land  or the  right,  title  and  interest  in  relation  to  a coal 
mine,  coking  coal  mine  or  a  coke  over  plant  vest  in  a  subsidiary  company  under  sub-section(1),  such 
subsidiary company shall, on and from the date of such vesting, be deemed to have become the lessee in 
relation to such coal mine or coking coal mine as if a fresh mining lease in relation to such coal mine or 
coking coal mine had been granted to it under the Mineral Concession Rules, 1960 made under section 13 
of  the  Mines  and  Minerals  (Development  and  Regulation)  Act,  1957  (67  of  1957)  for  the  maximum 
period for which such lease could have been granted under those rules, and all the rights and liabilities of 
Coal India or, as the case may be, the subsidiary company in relation to such coal mine or coking coal 
mine  shall,  on  and  from  the  date  of  such  vesting,  be  deemed  to  have  become  the  rights  and  liabilities, 
respectively, of subsidiary company first-mentioned. 

4. **Validation of certain transfers.**—A subsidiary company which was operating, or was in control 
of, any coal mine, coking coal mine, or coke oven plant which was vested in the Coal India or any other 
subsidiary  company  immediately  before  the  commencement  of  this  Act,  shall  be  deemed  to  have  been 
vested with the land or rights in or over such land or the right, title and interest in relation to such coal 
mine,  coking  coal  mine  or  coke  oven  plant  and  such  vesting  shall  be  deemed  to  have  been  valid  and 
effective  at  all  material  times  as  if  a  direction  had  been  made  by  the  Central  Government  under 
sub-section (1) of section 3 and accordingly no suit or other proceeding shall be instituted, maintained or 
continued  in  any  court  on  the  ground  that  such  subsidiary  company  was  not  competent  to  operate  or 
control such coal mine, coking coal mine or coke oven plant.